stewie

[quote]The Government understands that ISP-level filtering is not a 'silver bullet'. We have always viewed ISP-level filtering as one part of a broader government initiative for protecting our children online. Technology is improving all the time. Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial.[/quote]

This is going beyond protecting children from illegal pornographic material to censoring a vibrant and creative open-source community. Many users of non-Microsoft and non-Apple operating system will no longer be able to effectively and efficiently share their computer code between users. This, of course, will be of no concern whatsoever to the International conglomerates who currently dominate the world of software. So P2P filtering is a good thing for the 'big end of town' but a disaster for the 'Free' software community.

I thought that this Government had pledged to speed up the internet not slow it down to a crawl with this deep packet inspection.

And who will be paying to install this equipment to decelerate internet connections and to examine every packet I send out/receive ? I expect that I will have to use some of my tax (Senator Conroy will divert it on my behalf from more pressing matters) and I'm guessing that my ISP will be charging me extra for the privilege of having slower broadband

I look forward to hear what your filter-sales teams will say about how they will also be able to inspect data being sent therough VPNs. When this Government then says that they will be able to do it I shall cease using the internet for any commercial transactions - it will become too dangerous for me to send my personal details through the various filters and I don't think I'd like to share my credit card details with disgruntled ISP employees, nor do I relish the prospect of identity theft if someone manages to get enough of my details by intercepting the already-intercepted stream of data I need to send.

This is a bad idea Let parents be parents and stop trying to be a nanny to the adult population